PwC Pledges $3 Billion Technology, Training Investment Worldwide

Updating the technology skills of 55,000 employees in the U.S. isn’t enough for Big Four accounting firm PwC LLP.

The global network is turning its digital sights on all of its 276,000 employees worldwide.

PwC, also known as PricewaterhouseCoopers, announced that it would invest $3 billion over four years to train its employees, and to build on its efforts to provide technology education to students, teachers, and other workers around the world.

PwC and its competitors have aggressively invested in new technologies to make the rote, repetitive work of accounting more efficient and to better wrangle the massive amount of ...